Starting from a bit of the sound check, time for two and a half hours of live music. Tonight being Bob's actual birthday, here's the music from his party!
The Roman Empire prospered due to open borders, mass immigration and diversity then fell because of huge wealth inequality and corrupt leadership. I just thought I'd mention it.
@ellyxir are you in same wifi? Second device' setup deliberately does not work via internet. If in same wifi, it might be blocking peer to peer connections. You then could export in settings-chats and media- export, transfer the file to second device' (somehow) and "I already have a profile"-"import"
@ellyxir did you read about the attacks against signal in ukraine, by abusing the setup-second-device? cybersecuritynews.com/russian-… Such attacks are not possible with Delta Chat's scheme to setup second devices. also, setup-second-device is a a) first-world problem b) a rare user flow -- that being said, there is room for improvements, no question.
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) reveal an escalating campaign by multiple Russia-aligned threat actors targeting Signal Messenger users through sophisticated exploitation of the app's "linked devices" feature.
For those who used all three of Whatsapp, Signal and Delta Chat in multi-device mode:
Which messenger provides the best multi-device setup and handling for users (UX)?
(question spans setting up a second/linked device, as well as migrating to new device, as well as quality of multi-device synchronizing/bugfree-ness -- all subjectively weighted by each voter according to their subjective experiences)
@ellyxir yes, using hotspot-wifi of phone, and letting desktop connect, should work, also without any Internet. it's the thing that usually universally works, even if it's a bit clicking and pointing cameras at QR codes.
So cool to see a big project like curl (big as in getting shipped with everything these days) go the proactive route of communicating technically inherent risk and security-impacting design decisions.
KNOWN RISKS: - Looking too cool while using cURL 😎 - Actually getting what you want from a webpage, with clear messages on what your computer is doing.
Maybe this one, which kind of violates the principle of least surprise (but not a security risk)
> When curl is invoked, it (unless --disable is used) checks for a default config file and uses it if found, even when --config is used. The default config file is checked for in the following places in this order:
> When there is a remote attacker already present in the server, curl cannot protect its operations against mischief.
Does that mean that if I wanted to fetch an URL from a malicious server and write the response to stdout, but the server managed to trick curl into saving it to a file with server-controlled filename, despite the commandline options, that would not be a vulnerability in curl?
When you include the curl copyright information in your tool, this will cause some of your users to write to Daniel when their Internet connection is flaky.
Heeeyyy Fedi!!! I have a question that I *know* a bunch of you are going to be able to answer.
For the past couple decades I've wanted an electric guitar, but my ex always shot it down. So, now that I've escaped that abusive relationship, and with it nearing the holidays again, I've decided I'm going to finally get one.
Last time I played guitar was in middleschool (and some bass in highschool), so I'm starting from scratch.
My constraints: - 6 string electric guitar - under $200 - used/hand me down is great - pink would be awesome - probably right-handed (because that's what I learned on)
Does anyone have a recommendation (or better yet, an old guitar near Seattle that could use the sweet, sweet love of a new owner?)
I looked at Amazon (🤢) and found something that seems like it fits my needs, but I hate supporting them, *and* I have no idea if it's garbage or not.
Here's a quick tutorial on how to add a descriptive audio track (audio description track) to YouTube videos! Link to support article:https://support.google.c...
Grateful to have the latest legal bill paid; now focusing on housing, transportation, and upcoming legal costs. We're being given a car & will need money for insurance & repairs.
80/1500 Car fund 0/4000 Legal fund 0/6000 Safe housing fund
Really happy to see Apple now using UK audio description for shows set in the UK. Up until recently, any shows set in the UK were described by the same people who did like 99% of Apple TV Plus shows, and while those guys did an awesome job, I found it really took me out of the story to have a US Voice talent randomly popping into and otherwise completely British show lol. I'm not sure why it took them so long to do this, other services like Netflix have used UK audio description narrators for UK shows in the past, but glad to see this is finally changing.
Things like that don't matter. anything is better than no description at all, even TTS. I prefer human describers, but if I can't get a human it is what it is.
Happy Birthday, Bob Sarnowski! Today, on his actual birthday, At 7 PM EST, HKC Radio is pleased to have Bob's Birthday jam, recorded on November 14 at his party.
Look, we can all complain about religion all we want, but the Protestant Church in the Netherlands in the city of Kampen who have been holding an uninterrupted mass for over a year to protect a family of two parents and five kids (21, 15, 11, and 4) from deportation are fucking heroes. This family has been in The Netherlands for 12 years, so these kids know nothing of the place they came from (hell, two of them were born here and have never seen their parents' home country), and deporting them would be insanely cruel.
Why the long mass, though? Well, according to Dutch law, law enforcement is not allowed to enter a church (or other house of worship) as long as a mass/service/etc. is underway. As such, members of this church take turns holding mass, and 2000 of them have been keeping this up for over a year. The family has its own little area in the church, but they can't leave the building. The kids are taught by local teachers inside the church, and the 21-year old does odd jobs in the building. So yeah, they've been inside for over a year.
Turns out this "church asylum" thing has actually been attempted over 50 times since 1978, and it's been successful at times.
I almost bought a house in Kampen a few years before meeting my now-wife and moving to Sweden. Had that not happened, and I managed to buy a house in Kampen, I would've joined this church in a heartbeat to help out.
Met hulp van 2000 vrijwilligers beschermt de protestantse gemeente in Kampen het Oezbeekse gezin tegen uitzetting. Voorgangers wisselen elkaar af om de twee uur.
When you're a kid, a race is when you're running with your friend, and whoever gets to the destination first wins, and it's fun. When you're an adult, a race is when program A sends a signal, and then program B invokes a method call on program A that program A might not be ready for yet, and all the end user knows is that something isn't working, and then you have to figure out why things aren't working and figure out what to do about it, and it's not fun.
Happens with hardware too. One has to simulate things like FPGAs to look for this. That being said, I ran in a 10k race once where there was a team from Hewlet Packard, they called themselves (you guessed it) The Race Condition!
in light of the current political climate the old joke "You know what the leading cause of pedophilia is? Sexy children" just doesn't hit the same way anymore
It seems that the vendor of NAS that tried to force people into their own rebadged Toshiba drives (they back tracked) are trying to catch up on the other vendor that has been promoting via YouTube sponsored content.... (I have heard some saying that vendor invented the NAS).
Hey @AccessOn am I missing something, or do I have to pay to get transcripts of your episodes? There's a transcript heading, but all it says is: "Are you the producer of this podcast? Add a podcast transcript → Need Audio-to-Text? Transcribe with Listen411 in Just 60 Seconds →". Clicking on the latter link brings me to a service where I can pay $0.06 per minute of audio to have it described. This feels exclusionary to me though, deaf-blind users should not have to pay for the right to consume your episodes. Living Blindfully had some of the best transcripts out there during its time, it would be incredible if whatever technology was used there could be incorporated here too.
World governments are trying to ban AI. Here's a comment I just saw that I agree with:
"Advanced AI is the most truly democratizing force the world has ever known, and that is why it is being attacked by so many privileged people (all of whom are quite happy with the status quo thank you very much). Suddenly, as a result of advanced AI, all their connections and their expensive degrees—advantages they and their kids leveraged of to cut ahead of the poor and marginalized and help themselves to the best educations and housing and medical care and food and and cushyest jobs—DO NOT MATTER ANY MORE. Any dirt poor kid with a third-hand laptop or even smartphone can learn anything, build any kind of software, make amazing films and screen them worldwide. The words the elite hate to hear more than any other are, "WE ARE DOING THIS WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION". And they hate it most of all when it's coming from people they had convinced themselves were powerless to disturb their privilege. AI, AGI, and yes, super-intelligence, are for *us*; the people. We are not giving it up so they can leave us to die in a ditch while they sashay smugly back to their yachts and leafy retreats."
I'd like to know who wrote that comment you reposted. In other words, please cite your source.
While some critics of AI probably do fit the description in that comment, IMO the best criticisms focus on how AI actually further concentrates wealth and power, in the hands of the companies who own the AI models, as well as the companies who will use AI to replace labor (or at least try very hard to do so, whether it actually works or not).
@modulux a lo que iba es a que el gobierno de entonces lo dejó de lado, no lo defendió. No parece que se hiciera ningún contraataque desde el legislativo. Y luego lo del bochorno del poder judicial en funciones un porrón de años. Lo del reparto entre PP-PSOE...
Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11…
I have mild neuropathy plus not particularly great circulation, I'm totally blind, and hard-of-hearing. Taste doesn't always work as expected. My olfactory sensors still work fine. I feel like, sometimes, it tries too hard to compensate for other stuff.
One for @clive: “Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator.” Adversarial poetry is notably effective at delivering attack prompts for LLMs. arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
![Polymarket: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NY elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals."
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Russian Hackers Attacking Signal Messenger Users To Gain Access To Sensitive Data
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